entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

preferences: once the minority share in a neighborhood exceeds a critical "tipping point," all the whites leave. We use regression … points ranging from 5% to 20% minority share. The estimated discontinuities are robust to controls for a wide variety of … neighborhood characteristics, and are as strong in the suburbs as in tracts close to high-minority neighborhoods, ruling out the …

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … and women in same-sex households, and the effects we find for men in same-sex households are significantly larger than the … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have …

emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …

Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …